user:Rich Farmbrough

{{Centre|{{admin|Rich_Farmbrough|Rich Farmbrough}} has been a Wikipedian for about {{relmonth|24052}} months}}

Some statistics

Also:

I was ranked 143,464th most controversial user by Vuong et al 2008. (On Ranking Controversies in Wikipedia: Models and Evaluation, WSDM '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, p 180)

Redirects

At RfD one of the perennial reasons given for deleting redirects is "maintenance". In fact most redirects require minimal manual maintenance, and as we get better at it, less still.

For example Hacoversine. This redirect sat there, requiring no maintenance for 9 years. I just received a message to say the page was patrolled today (2015-10-15). The only reason it was edited was to allow the concept to be added to Wikidata - which would not apply to most of the redirects at RfD.{{tl|Squared}}

Projects I am currently interested in

WP:Tea House
Covering pseudonym/real-name redirects - currently working on "S" from the first of a list of resources.
Translating bird articles to Swahili
Improving Wiktionary coverage of Gaelic languages
Improving Wiktionary coverage of obsolete English terms
Generating demographic and geographic images for Commons
Reviewing and revising the Arbitration Committee processes and policy
Filling in gaps in previous projects
Assisting smaller language wikis with technical issues

A few of the pages I've started

and... List of Ace Double Novels Thelin Clofarabine Myeloblast William H Nation 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment Spaghetti House siege :Category:Royal residences in the United Kingdom Fundamental theorem of projective geometry Charles Fambrough Muckle Flugga Vernon Kell (and other MI5 DGs) Kemal Monteno :Category:Lost BBC episodes List of Goon Show episodes - well it was part of The Goon Show when I created it. Peter Glaze Ohio House of Representatives Projective frame.

Interesting things

Most websites have the wrong dates for some episodes of Doomwatch. We don't.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4648659

Barnstars ''et al''.

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I have some and I like getting them. I have also given some out.

{{detail|User:Rich Farmbrough/Barnstars}} (incomplete)

Things that stayed too long

;Note, this is a random sampling of errors, vandalism and hoaxes, some spotted by me, some by others. The point is to remind us that Wikipedia vandalism is not "all corrected within a few minutes" as we sometimes seem to think.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AstraZeneca&diff=prev&oldid=985081661 complete misunderstanding of the formation of one of the largest companies in the UK]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K._Muraleedharan&diff=656409818&oldid=656409561 A non-vegetarian god] for [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K._Muraleedharan&oldid=646658659 three months].
SE 194W
Who has the real diamond? [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cullinan_Diamond&diff=24632518&oldid=21373041] 6 weeks.
Mañana Será Otro Dia 5 months
Street racer ski 9 weeks.
Hardin County, Ohio was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hardin_County%2C_Ohio&diff=27687482&oldid=22445107 country] for nearly six months.
Rautavaara wrote "ASDF" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%89tude&diff=next&oldid=27792752 Etudes] for nearly six months.
Parts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Spencer&diff=next&oldid=71589554 this edit] took a month to fix.
The (imaginary) Belgian Bun Companion guide [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chelsea_bun&diff=96738628&oldid=96738210]. Over eight months.
The lower-case professor [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faculty_of_Biological_Science%2C_University_of_Dhaka&diff=prev&oldid=102208917], about six months.
Irina Simagina was a man [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irina_Simagina&diff=73583796&oldid=71687208] for 10 months.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olov_Gr%C3%B8tting&diff=532551966&oldid=494131633 This female politician] was a man for eight months. My mistake, I thought her name was a spelling variation of men's name Olav.
Gé van Aelst, mix-up entry, 1 month.
Parts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Garc%C3%ADa_%28race_walker%29&diff=103515933&oldid=97270302 this edit] stayed for over eight months.
Link to non existent congressman [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mathias&diff=next&oldid=92124219] over nine months.
Zach Hansen [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1736&diff=172129911&oldid=168632781 born in 1736]. Three weeks.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rich_Farmbrough&diff=177411981&oldid=177411696 Saying Zach Hansen] when the vandalism said "Zach Dillon, Jarek Petras, and Austin Hansen". December 2007 to July 2009.
Prince Albert Day, six days.
Ever heard of "Aka Amir khosro Ahmadi"? [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aka&diff=prev&oldid=120577245] Probably [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Aka+Amir+khosro+Ahmadi%22 not]. Stayed for 17 months.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aka&diff=231185923&oldid=230996982] And what's [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aka&diff=prev&oldid=212950508 this] about?
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nadine_Kleinert&diff=154120430&oldid=154119851 Accidental page blanking] stood for a year.
Islamic flags were "pink blue and rainbow" for [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islamic_flags&diff=253062684&oldid=253062393 nearly 2 months]. Which was nice.
Married to a wanker from [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Condy_Raguet&diff=236562006&oldid=224395362 September 2008] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Condy_Raguet&diff=297668247&oldid=290264173 June 2009].
A chef worked at "Noob's" for 19 months, from {{diff2|91312379|November 2006}} to {{diff2|222989483|July 2008}}
Possibly Kosvinsky Mountain
There was excrement on a talk page for 38 months, from {{diff2|89918577|November 2006}} to {{diff2|338824871|January 2010}}
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halvor_Bjellaanes&diff=393386397&oldid=151378942 Wrong date of death for three years], until he actually died!
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laza_Lazarevi%C4%87&diff=prev&oldid=443172180 34 children] for two years - then they all left at the same time.
The Protestant Cruse family was made Jewish for two-and-a-half years, from the article's creation in {{diff2|285914101|April 2009}} to {{diff2|457757573|October 2011}}. Based on the false information on Wikipedia, family members were listed on [http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/france/list_of_french_jews.htm an antisemitic website].
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/124.83.37.140 These] clumsy acts of vandalism. Just under three years.

Database dumps

[http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html Latest dump].

Disambiguation

I have also disambiguated "[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British&redirect=no British]" (several times), please correct any mistakes you come across. See User:Rich Farmbrough/Disambig scripts for a tool I used to help with disambiguation.

WP errors

There are so many ways WP can fail.

Useful style guides etc.

Edits

Generalist.

I would like to be writing great articles, but actually I'm an inveterate "fixer" of anything that I see that looks wrong - mainly links and copyedits. I have spent some time on GFDLing about 3000 images, and on some specific articles, for example Spaghetti House siege and Pedro Lopez. I also migrated a fair few biographies from DNB.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicol%C3%A1s_Fasolino&diff=prev&oldid=383322850] was edit 750,000.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Collins_(psychologist)&oldid=913539548] was edit 1,500,000.